Domestic heating and cooking apparatus



N. PEMBERTON-BILLING.

DOMESTIC HEATING AND COOKING APPARATUS.

APPLlCATlON HLED1UH23, 1919.

1,345,400. Patented July 6, 1920? 3 SHEETS-SHEET I.

NKPE'MBERTON-BILLING.

DOMESTIC HEATING AND COOKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUL! 23, I9l9.

3 SHEETSSHEET 2.

. 1,345,400. at t d uly 6, 1920.

mvurron N. PEMBERTON-BILLING.

4 DOMESTIC HEATING AND COOKING-APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23, 1919- Patented J uly 6, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

NOEL PEMBEBTON-BILLING, OE I-IERTFORD, ENGLAND.

DOMESTIC HEATING AND COOKING APPA'R ATUS.

Application filed July 23,

new and useful Improvements in Domestic Heating and Cooking Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

.T his invention relates to an improved construction of domestic heating and .cooking-apparatus of the type in which a single shaft contains a fire which may be utilized to serve two or more dwelling-rooms. Constructions have previously been suggested in which a single shaft communicates with lire-place openings situated one in each of several rooms, the shaft containing two grates separated from one another by vertical backing, and the grates and backing being mounted on a revolving support so that the fire in one of the grates can be turned to he exposed through any one of the fireplace openings around the shaft.

The improved construction of heating and cooking-apparatus according to the present invention, comprises a column or chimneyshaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms). and having a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of it, with the sills of all the openings at or about at the same level, the said column having in it at or near thelevel of the sills, a single grate, the entire surface of which serves all the tire-place openings.

Preferably there are provided vertical wehs at opposite sides of each fire-place opening. and radially to the shaft, so that the faces of the each openin doors on vertical hinges for some or all of the said fire-place openings, and covers hinged to the reveals by vertical hinges.

According to one modification in addition to the vertical. webs and outwardlyopening doors for some of the openings, there are provided. for another of said openings. (6. 7. that opening which faces a kitchen) an.outwardly-opening plate on a horizontal hinge, and an horizontal hinge, both the plate and the grid having their hinges at or about the sill level, and covers hinged to the reveals by Specification of Letters Patent. 7

webs constitute reveals for inwardly-opening grid on a Patented July 6,1920.

1919. Serial No. 312,852.

vertical hinges. These covers form facings hehind each of which one of the vertically lunged doors, while open, can be concealed.

The covers aforesaid are preferably 0rna-' mental and by their use the inner or discolored face of the open doorsis kept out of sight.

Below the level of the sills is preferably a water-tube forming a horizontal frame which supports a fire-grate; uptake and downcomer pipes rise from the water-tube frame, and at the upper end of said pipes is a hotavater tank in the flue.

The hot-water tank, a heating chamber with an open fnont, ovens, and a smoke-box are above the level of the aforesaid fireplace openings into the rooms and are supported by the column aforesaid and also are upheld by posts extending up from the floor of the huildin In the accompanying drawings. I Figure 1 is a vertical central section tl'irough a heatingand cooking device according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan of the same in section on the line 22 of Fig, 51, and 1 Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic View showingthe arrangement of the hot-water tank, the ovens, and the heating-chamber and indicating the course of the draft around them.

Wi-th reference first to Figs. 1 and 2, Cb is the column forming as aforesaid the lower part of a chimney-shaft which column has in it four lire-place openings numbered 1, 2 3, 4;, respectively, in its sides. The opening 4 is assumed to be theopenin g into a kitchen, the other openings being allotted each of them to some other one in a plurality of dwelling-rooms set around the chimneyshaft and including the kitchen.

level. In the illustrated example the column and shaft are central in a group of four roomslV, X, Y, Z, set around it, Z bein the kitchen. Vertical webs vlv VVV l Wv VVW radiate from the shaft and their faces F constitute reveals for each opening 1, 2, 3 or i. As to the openings 1, 2 and 3, there is an outwardly-opening door D D or D for each of them, hinged on vertical hinges V or For V at one side .ofthe corresponding opening. Thesedoors. Which can have mica panes, are {used to close the openings, and whenthey are closed, the draft or air supply T sill S of all the openings are atahou-t the same for the fire can pass into the stove only by way of a bottom chamber BC which is part of, or which encircles, the stove base, and has ventilating valves VV in it.

Covers C C C are hinged by vertical hinges to the outer margins of the reveals and the door of any of the openings, for instance the door D can be opened out against the reveal and concealed (see the door D in Fig. 2) by the corresponding cover C when it is desired that the opening 3 should be wide open.

As to the opening 4 into the kitchen, there is hinged to it, on a horizontal hinge at the level of the sill, a plate P and a grid G. The plate P when turned up (as in chain-line in Fig. 1) serves as a door to close the opening 4 and the grid Grv can stand upright behind the door, as shown in full-line in Fig. 1; when desired, the door can be opened out horizontally and supported in that position by vertical legs L which, being hinged at their upper ends to the door, gravitate automatically into pos1- tion, when the plate descends, so as to support it horizontally, as shown in Fig. 1. This plate serves as a hob for dishes and cooking utensils. The grid G can also be downturned about its hinge (see chain-lines in F ig. 1), in which case it extends on the same level as that of the, down-turned plate P inward across the main fire which is below it,'as will hereinafter appear. A supplementary fire, such as a fire of wood, can be placed upon this grid above the main fire if desire Below the level of the sills is a watertube WT in the form of a square frame; this supports a fire-grate FG upon which the main fire is carried. Uptake and downcomer pipes P P rise from the water-tube frame and at the upperends are connected to a hot-water tank HWT from which bath and kitchen supplies can be drawn.

'Above the level of the tops of the open ings 1, 2, 3 and 4 (see Figs. 1 and 3) are ovens O a heating-chamber HO with an open front and the hot-water tank HWT, together with a smoke-box SB from which a smoke-tube ST extends up the chimney-shaft. The ovens, the heating chamber, and the hot-water tank and smokebox are castings supported by the column CS and the posts '20, w, y, a. There are draft flues DF extending between and around them, as shown in Fig. 3, and four dampers DR, three of which are diagrammatically shown in Fig. 3, to regulate the path of the draft through the fiues, by cutting out that one of the paths in which they are placed. Access of air to the fire-grate FG when ""desired is obtained by way of the hollow bottom chamber BC having in the side of it air-openingsin which are the ventilatingvalves VV of a well-known type for regulating the passage of air therethrough. In

the bottom chamber B0 is the ash-drawer AD.

What I claim asmy invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column 'or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), aplu rality of fire-place hinges for at least one of the said open-' ings.

Domestic heatingapparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney-shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fireplace openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, and covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer margins by vertical hinges.

Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills,

the entire surface of which grate serves all 7 4. Domestic heating-apparatus compris mg the combination of a hollow column or I chimney-shaft, around which a pluralit of dwelling rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical Webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge and an inwardly opening grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sill level of one of the openings.

5. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the side of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the en-- tire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft so that the faces of the webs constitutereveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for some of the said openings, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge and an inwardly opening grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sill level of another of said openings.

6. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney-shaft around which a plurality of dwelling rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the'sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire place openings, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, covers hinged to the reveals at or near theirouter margins by vertical hinges, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge and an inwardly opening grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sill level for another of said openings.

7. Domestic heating-apparatus compris-. ing'the COmblllftlllOIlOf a hollowcolumn or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially thelevel of the sills, the entire veals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for some of the said opemngs, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge, and an inwardly-opening grid on a horizontal-hinge both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sill level for another of said openings, and

covers hinged to the reveals at or near their outer margins-by vertical hinges.

8. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney-shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft'being preferably at a meeting of the ,angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column wit-h the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, and a water-tube frame below the level of said sills which supports a fire-grate and has uptake and downcomer pipes vrising from it, and, at the upper ends of said pipes, a hot-water tank.

9. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising i the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different .rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fireplace openings, vertical Webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for at least one of the said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer .margins by vertical hinges, and a water tube frame below the level of said sills which supports a fire-grate and has uptake and clownper ends of said pipes, a hot water tanln 10. Domestic. heating-apparatus. compris ing the combination of a hollow column or' chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of. fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical: webs the opposite sides of each openingand radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for some of the said openings, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge, an inwardly-opening' grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sills level for another of said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer margins by vertical hinges and a water-tube frame below the level, of said sills which supports a firegrate and has uptake and downcomer pipes rising from it and, at the upper ends of said pipes, a hot water tank.

11. Domestic heating-apparatus compris- 'ig the combination of a hollow column or chimney-shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, and an oven or ovens, a heating-chamber with an open front, a hot water tank, draft flues and a smoke-box, all above the level of the aforesaid openings.

12. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of lire-place openings in the side of it with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the Webs constitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for at least one of the said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantiallyjtheir outer margins by vertical hinges, and an oven, a heating chamber with an open front, a hot water tank, draft fines and a smoke box, all above the level of the aforesaid openings.-

13. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of dwellingrooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of ire-place openings in the sides of thecolumn with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical webs at the V opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs constitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for some of the said openings, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge, an inwardly opening grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at sub-- stantially the sill level for another of said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer margins by vertical hinges, and an oven, a heating-chamber with an open front, a hot water tank, draft fines and a smoke-box, all above the level of the aforesaid openings.

la. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney-shaft around which aplurality of dwelling-rooms is set, (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality. of fire place openings in the sides of the column with the silis of all the openings at substai'itially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the lire-place openings, a water-tube frame below thelevel of said sills which supports a fire-grate and has uptake and downcomer pipes rising from it, and, at the upper ends of said pipes, a hot water tank, and an oven,

a heating-chamber with an open front, a.

hot water tank, draft fines and a smokebox,

the fire-place openings, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft, so that the faces of the webs con stitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for at least one of the said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer marginsvby vertical hinges, a water-tube frame below the level. of said sills which supports. a fire-grate and has uptake and'downcomer pipes rising from it and, at the upper ends of said pipes, a hot water tank, and an oven,

a heating chamber with an open front, a.

hat water tank, draft fines and a smoke box, all above the level of the aforesaid openings.

16. Domestic heating-apparatus comprising the combination of a hollow column or chimney shaft around which a plurality of. dwelling-rooms is set (the said shaft being preferably at a meeting of the angles of different rooms), a plurality of fire-place openings in the sides of the column with the sills of all the openings at substantially the same level, a single grate in the said column at substantially the level of the sills, the entire surface of which grate serves all the fire-place openings, vertical webs at the opposite sides of each opening and radial to the shaft,'so that the faces of the Webs constitute reveals for each opening, outwardly opening doors on vertical hinges for some of the said openings, an outwardly opening plate on a horizontal hinge, an inwardlyopening grid on a horizontal hinge, both plate and grid being hinged at substantially the sill level for anotherof said openings, covers hinged to the reveals at substantially their outer margins by vertical hinges, a water-tube frame below the level of said sills which supports a fire-grate and hasuptake and downcomer pipes rising from it and, at the upper ends of said pipes, a hot water tank, and an oven, a heating chamber with an open front, a hot water tank, draft flues and a smoke box all-above the level of the aforesaid openings.

17. A heating apparatus, comprising a central shaft having a plurality of openings in opposite sides thereof, radially disposed webs extending from the corners of said shaft, and swinging doors for certain of said openings adapted to extend substantially parallel to and be protected by said webs when in open position, substantially as described.

18. A heating apparatus, comprising a central shaft having a plurality of openings in opposite sides thereof, radially disposed webs extending from the corners of said shaft, swinging doors for certain of said openings adapted to extend substantially parallel to said webs when in open position, and covers carried by said webs for overlying said doors, substantially as described.

19. A heating apparatus, comprising a central shaft having an opening therein, a vertically swinging plate cooperating with said opening and adapted to be swung downradially from the corners of said shaft and adapted to cooperate with said doors to protect the same when in open position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

NOEL PEMBERTON-BILLING. 

